ǪrvOdd Ævdr 9VIII (Ǫrv 79)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 79 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 894.
Váru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hoskir ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
herskipum ‘the warships’
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herskip (noun n.): warship
frændr ‘kinsmen’
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frændi (noun m.): kinsman, male relative
mínir ‘My’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
tveir ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
Vildu ‘wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
hásetar ‘oarsmen’
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háseti (noun m.): rower, crewman
hoskir ‘The wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
eignaz ‘to get their hands on’
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eigna (verb; °-að-): acquire
tak ‘the possessions’
er ‘the’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
áttu ‘owned’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
Tyrfi ‘Ter’
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-tyrfi (noun n.) < tyrfifinnr (noun m.)
[8] Tyrfi‑: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘tyfvi’ 343a
notes
[8] Tyrfifinnar ‘the Ter-Saami’: Name for a group of Saami hunter-gatherers living in the Kola peninsula. The word is nowhere else recorded in Old Norse, but it occurs in Old English as Terfinnas, the name for a group of inhabitants of this region, according to the witness of the trader Ohthere (ON Óttarr), who distinguished the Terfinnas from the Beormas because the former lived by hunting, fishing and bird-catching, whereas the Beormas had extensive settlements (Lund 1984, 19; Ross 1981, 24-8). The first element tyrfi- is probably derived by folk etymology from the noun torf ‘turf’, but is likely to come from the old Saami name for the Kola Peninsula, Ter or Tre (but see AEW: Tyrfifinnar for different possible etymologies).
finnar ‘Saami’
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Finnr (noun m.): Saami (person) < tyrfifinnr (noun m.)
notes
[8] Tyrfifinnar ‘the Ter-Saami’: Name for a group of Saami hunter-gatherers living in the Kola peninsula. The word is nowhere else recorded in Old Norse, but it occurs in Old English as Terfinnas, the name for a group of inhabitants of this region, according to the witness of the trader Ohthere (ON Óttarr), who distinguished the Terfinnas from the Beormas because the former lived by hunting, fishing and bird-catching, whereas the Beormas had extensive settlements (Lund 1984, 19; Ross 1981, 24-8). The first element tyrfi- is probably derived by folk etymology from the noun torf ‘turf’, but is likely to come from the old Saami name for the Kola Peninsula, Ter or Tre (but see AEW: Tyrfifinnar for different possible etymologies).
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This stanza needs to be read ironically to reflect the speaker’s (Oddr’s) distaste for the raiding of the other members of the party, and this point of view is signalled by the repeated use of the adj. ho(r)skr ‘wise’ in ll. 1 and 6. According to the saga prose (Ǫrv 1888, 24-7), the party sees Saami huts (gammar) on the coast as they travel north to Permia. The crew on Guðmundr’s ship go ashore, rob the huts and terrify the Saami women, but Oddr does not allow his crew to do so. Oddr is invited to join a similar raiding party the following day, but refuses to participate. His attitude on this occasion is to be contrasted with the alacrity with which he engages in raiding on the Permians (see the following stanza), and is doubtless attributable to his awareness of his family’s kinship with the Saami through his father’s mother Hrafnhildr Brúnadóttir (cf. GrL and Ket).
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